librep 0.17.4

librep 0.17.4 A offers you a perfect and useful shared library implementing a Lisp dialect which is lightweight, reasonably fast, and highly extensible. librep contains an interpreter, byte-code compiler and virtual machine.

Applications may use the interpreter as an extension language, or it may be used for standalone scripts. The Lisp dialect was originally inspired by Emacs Lisp. However one of the main deficiencies of elisp--the reliance on dynamic scope--has been removed. Also, rep only has a single namespace for symbols.

Major Features:

1. Bytecode compiler and virtual machine
2. Choice of lexical and dynamic scope for variables
3. Single name space for symbols
4. A module system (modeled largely on Scheme48)
5. Support for running Scheme code (currently targets r4rs)
6. Tail-call elimination
7. Mostly Scheme-like numbers (bignums, rationals, floats)
8. Supports call-with-current-continuation
9. Software preemptive threading
10. Mostly Perl-like regular expression handling
11. Extensible type, I/O and file handling
12. Shared objects (a.k.a. plugins) appear as lisp libraries to the user
13. Comprehensive support for spawning and controlling subprocesses

Enhancements:

• Don't ignore datarootdir setting
• Fixed an aclocal warning from configure.in
• Improved configures ending message
• Doc update in Numbers section. Lacking description on machine
• dependence is added. [Teika]
• Remove tar target from Makefile [Ritz]